Vocabulary Learning Strategies: A Case in Graduate Record Examinations

Abstract

This research is a study of Vocabulary Learning Strategies: A Case in Graduate Record Examinations. This work attempted to find out the strategies employed by the GRE learners. For this I have selected 80 GRE learners randomly from four different institutes of Kathmandu valley as the population of the study. The researcher used questionnaire as a tool for data collection. On the basis of the collected data, the strategies employed by the learners were determined using simple statistical tools like percentage and weighted mean and presented with the help of tables and chart to draw the findings. The major finding of this research included the strategies employed by the learners of GRE on the basis of the weighted mean. The most used strategies were learning words by definition and noting down the meaning during teacher’s explanation. The study report consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study in terms of general background; review of related literature, objectives and significance of the study along with the definition of some specific terms. Chapter two deals with the methodological strategies used to conduct the study which includes the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three includes analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The data were analyzed and interpreted by using simple statistical tools and presented with the help of tables, diagrams and chart. Chapter four, the final chapter of this thesis presents the findings, recommendations of the study.